News about Nelson Rockefeller

New York City is considering a bill that will use birth control to eradicate the rat population. The number of rats in the city stands at about three million, down from 10 million in 1967. The city has previously used rat poison, dry ice, traps and drowning as methods to eliminate the number of rodents.

A couple who lived in the prewar building on the 5th and the ninth have filed a dramatic lawsuit alleging that the board's former president and others of running the place like a mob. On a tony stretch of upper Fifth Avenue, Elizabeth Sawyer and her partner Clifford Press, the operators of a 12-room park-facing unit, have claimed that a racket has been operating for over a decade in plain view and with impunity. According to the lawsuit, a corrupt group of entrenched cooperative directors who are profiting the company by their illegal and other misdeeding behaviors are concealing behind the limestone facade of a Museum Mile neoclassical.

Although heavily populated cities such as New York and Los Angeles may seem to be the most likely US targets, there are other, more targeted states, such as Montana or North Dakota. The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) first published the map of the areas most likely to be affected in 2017 in a tweet, but it has resurfaced on social media as the West teeters prepare to war with Russia over its takeover of Ukraine.

Parts of the city's entire population would be killed and radiation poisoning if the Russian leader did drop a nuke on the Big Apple. However, there are already nuclear fallout shelters scattered around New York City from the turbulent Cold War period. The yellow and black stripes once represented fully stocked fortresses that might serve as cover in the event of a nuclear attack, much to the worry of Americans, particularly New Yorkers following the 1962 Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. However, by the following decade, funds had run out and the majority of them had been converted into basement storage spaces. Nelson Rockefeller, the father of more than $1.5 billion, oversaw the construction of at least tens of thousands of shelters around the city in 1960.